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First Opium War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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For the First and Second Opium Wars in China in the 1800s considered as a collective, ... View of Canton with merchant ship of the Dutch East India Company, c.

Opium War: Britain Stole Hong Kong From China - Serendipity

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How Britain acquired Hong Kong, and the connection to opium. ... taking over theopium trade from its European capitalist rivals, Portugal and Holland. ... Britain's East India Company would wage three wars on the people of China in order to ...

The opium-past of Europe –and Holland- and reconciliation

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Aug 29, 2014 - Two of these wars were started by the British, in order to secure (the profits of) their opium imports into China, the so called 'opium wars', ...

China Trade and the East India Company - British Library

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Guide to sources relating to China in the India Office Records - History of the China ... after the Dutch East India Company had been expelled from the island by the .... This incident outraged the British and triggered the first Opium War in 1840.

The First Opium War - MIT Visualizing Cultures

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Not surprisingly, Chinese historians have regarded the two Opium Wars as unjust ... monopoly companies, like Britain's East India Company and the Dutch VOC.